The nation's weekly COVID-19 case average is falling at a much faster rate than the number of tests taken, reports The COVID Tracking Project. 

First responders navigated through a major snowstorm Feb. 10 to transport a pair of donor lungs and three physicians to Cincinnati Children's Medical Center where a young recipient awaited the organ, local NBC affiliate WLWT reported Feb. 11. 

Below are 15 hospitals and health systems that recently posted job listings seeking chief nursing officers. 

The CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices released its recommended immunization schedule for those 18 years and younger Feb. 12. 

COVID-19 has restricted some of the clinical learning experiences for students pursuing a healthcare career — but a new virtual reality pilot program at National University in San Diego is providing nursing students a clinical experience in a simulated world. 

The CDC updated its guidelines Feb. 12 for safe K-12 school reopenings, explaining that proper mitigation can help keep everyone safe, but also urging areas with low community transmission rates to still enforce mask-wearing and socially distanced classrooms.

COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths continue to trend downward in the U.S., though the number of coronavirus variant cases is rising, according to a new weekly CDC report published Feb. 12.  

Escondido, Calif.-based Palomar Health opened the region's first COVID-19 resource clinic Feb. 8, offering COVID-19 vaccinations, testing and antibody treatments under one roof.

Prescribing blood thinners early on in COVID-19 patients' hospital stays reduced their 30-day mortality risk, according to an EHR-based study published Feb. 11 in The BMJ.

Trained scent detection dogs screening for those with COVID-19 showed similar or better success rates than standard polymerase chain reaction tests, according to findings from a literature review published in the February issue of Journal of Osteopathic Medicine.

Ten known flu hospitalizations were reported for the week ending Feb. 6, according to the CDC's FluView report published Feb. 12. 

Health officials are worried the three-day annual Cheersports Nationals cheerleading competition expected to draw 40,000 people could turn into a COVID-19 superspreader event, NBC News reported Feb. 11. 

Three states — Louisiana, New York and South Carolina — are reporting more than 500 new daily COVID-19 cases per million residents, reports The COVID Tracking Project.  

Massachusetts updated its COVID-19 vaccine eligibility rules Feb. 10, allowing companions of people age 75 or older visiting mass vaccination sites to also receive the vaccine. Now, some residents are turning to Craigslist to try to take advantage of the program, Gov. Charlie Baker told CBS Boston.

Obesity contributes to between 30 percent and 53 percent of new diabetes cases in the U.S. each year, according to research published Feb. 10 in the Journal of the American Heart Association. 

COVID-19 vaccination efforts will greatly accelerate this spring, and most Americans could be able to start receiving their first doses by April, Anthony Fauci, MD, said in a Feb. 11 interview with NBC's Today.

Roche's rheumatoid arthritis drug tocilizumab reduced the risk of death in patients hospitalized with severe COVID-19 in a large U.K. study conducted by the University of Oxford. 

President Joe Biden's administration said it's working to build two mass COVID-19 vaccination centers in New York and three in Texas, CNBC reported Feb. 10. 

For the first time since Oct. 22, no state is reporting more than 400 COVID-19 hospitalizations per million people, reports The COVID Tracking Project. 

Infection preventionists cited the COVID-19 vaccines' quick market entry as the most common reason other healthcare workers have been hesitant to get vaccinated, according to a Feb. 10 survey from the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology.